<title>Portability</title>
-<para>Samba works on a wide range of platforms, but the interface all the
+<para>
+<indexterm><primary>platforms</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>compatible</primary></indexterm>
+Samba works on a wide range of platforms, but the interface all the
platforms provide is not always compatible. This chapter contains
platform-specific information about compiling and using Samba.</para>
<title>HPUX</title>
<para>
+<indexterm><primary>/etc/logingroup</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>/etc/group</primary></indexterm>
Hewlett-Packard's implementation of supplementary groups is nonstandard (for
historical reasons). There are two group files, <filename>/etc/group</filename> and
<filename>/etc/logingroup</filename>; the system maps UIDs to numbers using the former, but
allowed range.
</para>
-<para>This is documented in the HP manual pages under setgroups(2) and passwd(4).
+<para>
+This is documented in the HP manual pages under setgroups(2) and passwd(4).
</para>
<para>
+<indexterm><primary>gcc</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>ANSI compiler</primary></indexterm>
On HP-UX you must use gcc or the HP ANSI compiler. The free compiler
that comes with HP-UX is not ANSI compliant and cannot compile Samba.
</para>
By default during installation, some versions of Red Hat Linux add an
entry to <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> as follows:
<programlisting>
- 127.0.0.1 loopback "hostname"."domainname"
+127.0.0.1 loopback "hostname"."domainname"
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
+<indexterm><primary>loopback interface</primary></indexterm>
This causes Samba to loop back onto the loopback interface.
The result is that Samba fails to communicate correctly with
the world and therefore may fail to correctly negotiate who
</para>
<para>
-Sun released patches for Solaris 2.6, 8, and 9. The patch for Solaris 7
-has not been released yet.
-</para>
-
-<para>
+Please check with Sun support for current patches needed to fix this bug.
The patch revision for 2.6 is 105181-34, for 8 is 108528-19, and for 9 is 112233-04.
-</para>
-
-<para>
After the installation of these patches, it is recommended to reconfigure
and rebuild Samba.
</para>